Revised uptown Marion plan trims travel lanes on Seventh Avenue
City planners propose wider sidewalks and fewer travel lanes on Seventh Avenue in Marion, with parallel parking on the north and angled parking on the south near City Square Park. Sixth Avenue would gain width to serve trucking and through traffic as Seventh Avenue slows for pedestrians. The plan includes bricked blocks around Marion Square Park and new pedestrian trails and buffers, with no fixed start date until budget talks.
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Eleventh Street
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Branstad ties to corporate donors questioned by group
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement cites Branstad ally Bruce Rastetter as Branstad’s top donor in 2010 with 162712 dollars and accuses him of shaping policy toward big money. CCI links Rastetter to secretive funding of campaigns and notes Branstad’s choice of public private allies. Branstad rejects claims, praising Rastetter and Teresa Wahlert as successful Iowa business leaders.
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DES Moines
Terry Branstad
Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement
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Bruce Rastetter
National Institute For Money
Rastetter
Iowa Falls
American Future Funds
Towans
Garry Klicker
Bloomfield
Debi Durham
Iowa
David Roederer
State Department of Management
Durham
Roederer
Iowa Chamber Alliance
Osceola attorney named head of state ethics board
Megan Tooker of Osceola will become executive director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, earning 82 500 a year starting Jan 1 She is a Drake Law School honors graduate and formerly clerked for Justice Michael Streit and works at Reynoldson Van Werden and Reynoldson The six member board unanimously chose Tooker over Dec 1 telephone meeting and replaces Charlie Smithson who led the agency since 1998
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Osceola
Megan Tooker
Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board
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Charlie Smithson
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Albert
Drake University Law School
Drake Law School
Iowa Supreme Court
Michael Streit
Iowa teen murder convict to appeal life sentence
A Waterloo woman convicted at 14 for a 1993 killing can challenge her life term as cruel and unusual punishment based on age. The Iowa Supreme Court sent the case back. a judge tossed part of the appeal but let a section proceed about new evidence on adolescent brain development. A March trial is planned.
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Black Hawk County
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